Grades 1 – 8
Teacher Training Concentration
New Cohort Begins This Summer
26 month Program designed for the busy full-time working teacher.
Philosophical, Practical & Pedagogical Courses
Structuring a balance of Philosophical, Practical & Pedagogical courses, providing teacher-candidates a strong foundation in elementary through middle school education.
Areas of Focus:
- New Student Orientation
- Curriculum and Grade level support and mentoring
- Anthroposophical Foundations in Rudolf Steiner’s basic writings & inner development
- Age appropriate games, circle activities, poetry, verse and rhythms of the day, week & year
- Visual Arts with watercolor painting, drawing, clay modeling for the classroom & for personal development
- Speech Arts
- Waldorf Culture –working in schools inspired by waldorf principles
- Sudent Study: learn to observe children through various lenses, work with diverse needs and understand individual differences
- Temporal Arts with eurythmy, singing and playing instruments.
Additional Coursework
Gradalis Grades 1 – 8 Concentration offers eight (8) courses for a total of 490 contact hours with the addition of 73 hours credited to the following:
- Candidate’s Curriculum Project (Due Last Semester)
- Class Study
- Child Study
Other coursework gives candidates a foundation in Steiner’s Philosophical Foundations and how to work with remedial needs, as well as child observation, first grade readiness and a full spectrum of foundational work necessary to become a teacher in schools inspired by Waldorf principles.
Enroll Today to Begin Training
This Summer
“Having earned my Gradalis Teaching Certification, I feel confident providing developmentally appropriate curriculum within my classroom and providing leadership to my school. I know that I can go anywhere in the world and be welcomed within the Waldorf movement.” – 2019 Class Teacher Graduate
Nationally accredited anthroposophically based training.
Gradalis Professional Development Training is a nationally accredited institution. Gradalis Training Programs qualify across state lines for required hours to maintain teaching certifications.
WECAN Associate Member Institute.
The mission of the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America is to foster a new cultural impulse for the work with the young child from pre-birth to age seven.
“Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.”
–Rudolf Steiner
CONTACT
(720)464-4557
info@gradalis.edu
TEACHING CAMPUS
4725 Miller Street
Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
OFFICE ADDRESS
10661 Utrillo Lane
Northglenn, CO 80234